Collaborations Workshops

The Software Sustainability Institute's annual Collaborations Workshop (CW) brings together researchers, software developers, managers, funders and more to explore important ideas in software and research and to plant the seeds of interdisciplinary collaborations.

Check out the Highlights from CW19. Photos from the event are also available in our photo gallery.

We're currently sorting out details for our Collaborations Workshop 2020.

Collaborations Workshop 2020

CW20 will take place from Tuesday 31st March to 1st April 2020 at Queen's University, Belfast. CW20 Hackday will take place from the evening of 1st April to end of day 2nd April 2020 at Ulster University, Belfast. The themes of the workshop will be Open Science/Research, Data Privacy and Software Sustainability.

Collaborations Workshop 2019

CW19 was held from Monday 1st to Wednesday 3rd April 2019 at Loughborough University in the West Park Teaching Hub, Loughborough. The themes of the workshop were interoperability, documentation, training and sustainability.

Collaborations Workshop 2018

Collaboration Workshop 18 (CW18) took place from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th March 2018 at The School of Mathematics, Cardiff University. The themes of the workshop were culture change, productivity and sustainability.

Collaborations Workshop 2017

CW17 took place from 27 to 29 March 2017 at the Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds. The theme of the workshop was the Internet of Things (IoT) and open data: implications for research.

Collaborations Workshop 2012

CW12 was held at Queen's College at the University of Oxford on 21-22 March 2012. The concept of "Research Software Engineers" first originated during this edition of the Collaborations Workshop.